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Raidho (pronounced "Ride-o") Acoustics is one of Denmark's foremost high-end loudspeaker-makers. In its facility at Pandrup near the west coast of the Jutland peninsula, it fabricates and assembles all of its own drivers. The only ...

If you audiophiles think that new and improved models are coming onto the market at an accelerated pace, try dipping a toe into the photography biz. Within the last few months, we’ve seen the announcement ...

Let me start with what you won’t get with Maggie’s new flagship ribbon/quasi-ribbon dipole three-way, the $14k 20.7s. First, you won’t get all of the dynamic range that you get with well-designed cone speakers. Indeed, ...

Those of you who’ve read Robert Harley’s review of Constellation Audio’s Reference Series Altair linestage preamp and Hercules monoblock power amps in our September issue already know that our Mr. H.—a man not given to ...

TAS’s 2011 Overall Product of the Year award winners, the $60k Magico Q5 and the near-$100k Rockport Altair, may be the highest-fidelity dynamic loudspeakers that a whole lot of money can currently buy, but that ...

This year’s CES was high on audio excitement, but (with several exceptions we will come to) not so high on fidelity. But…that’s okay. I’m sure that the vast majority of ultra-high-end loudspeaker-makers probably figure that ...

Like me (up until a few months ago), most of you have probably never heard of the German turntable manufacturing firm Acoustic Signature, its brilliant chief engineer and CEO Gunther Frohnhöfer, or its beautiful, massive ...

About a month ago, Warren Gehl, the Golden Ear at Audio Research Corporation who has done the voicing of ARC’s latest (and top-to-bottom superlative) line of electronics, called me up with some bleak news: “You ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. Another October, another trek to the Mile High City to hear some of the world’s best loudspeakers—and see old friends. Rocky Mountain Audio ...

I’ve never really considered Sony to be a “player” in high-end still photography (although it has long been one in professional videography). Its top-end SLRs—the A900 and (now discontinued) A850—received mixed reviews (great at base ...

Last weekend I traveled to Berkeley, CA, and spent three solid days listening to Magico’s latest aluminum-enclosed speaker, the $25k stand-mounted Q1 mini-monitor. To be honest, though I’d been invited to audition the Q1s several ...

I know it’s a stretch, but for the sake of argument let’s say that you don’t have six dimes to drop on a pair of the highest-fidelity, lowest-coloration, fullest-range loudspeakers I’ve heard in my home—the ...